" Hattitude... there's a little more strut in your carriage when you wear a hat" ~Deirdre Guion

This past weekend Jessie and I hosted a tea at her house. We invited 4 women to join us for tea on Saturday afternoon at 4pm. I was most excited to get dressed up and wear fun hats but, the party ended up being such a blast. We spent Friday evening and Saturday baking zucchni bread, lemon scones, making chicken salad, homemade clotted cream, iced peach tea (to welcome our guests in from the scorching desert temperatures), arranging flowers in a tea pot for our centerpiece and wrapping tea cups to give as party favors.

We borrowed the hats from our friend Beth who brought along a book about hat etiquette! The first obstacle was how to greet each guest when we all had on these great big hats. We read at the party that you should never try to "put your hands all up around a woman's neck when she has on a hat" you should leave some space between the two of you, I wish I had read it before because when I hugged Fatimah, I knocked her hat right off her head!

Jessie has all these really great antique dishes from her mom and her aunt, we put jordan almonds out in this silver tiered serving dish.

The table was beautiful! It made the day feel so special, Jessie found these really great tea quotes and we all read them in between courses.

Here we are all dressed up and ready to host!